<b>“One of the best collections I’ve ever read. Every single story is a standout.”—Roxane Gay</b><br><b><br>WINNER OF THE CHAUTAUQUA PRIZE • LONGLISTED FOR THE STORY PRIZE • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR • <i>Refinery29 </i>• <i>BookRiot</i></b><br><br><b>“Fuses science, myth, and imagination into a dark and gorgeous series of questions about our current predicaments.”­—Anthony Doerr, author of <i>All the Light We Cannot See</i></b><br><br>A dystopian tale about genetically modified septuplets who are struck by a mysterious illness; a love story about a man bewitched by a mermaid; a stirring imagining of the lives of Nigerian schoolgirls in the aftermath of a Boko Haram kidnapping. The stories in <i>All the Names They Used for God</i> break down genre barriers—from science fiction to American Gothic to magical realism to horror—and are united by each character’s brutal st